Typographical Portrait – Steve Jobs
The lord of all things Mac gets a typographical makeover with this Steve Jobs portrait by Dylan Roscover. The portrait was inspired by the Mac ads from the 90's called "Crazy Ones".
The typeface-driven design uses common typography of Apple. The use of Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded are all fonts that have been present in Apple's branding and products.
See more at Eugene's collection of Hyper-Realistic Typographic Portraits
Macs and Windows Computers are Incompatible?
An interesting Myth about Apple & Windows
With all the "Mac versus PC" debates raging on many blogs, message boards and even TV commercials, it's easy to assume that Macs and Windows PCs are so different as to be utterly incompatible or even friends.
It's true that Macs and Windows PCs run on different operating systems. Macs use the UNIX-based OS X, while Windows machines use, well, Windows. But that doesn't mean that the two operating systems speak completely different languages.
For starters, just about every common software application runs on both Macs and Windows PCs. That includes Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), most major Web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari), Adobe Software and even iTunes. This means that Mac and PC users can share almost every type of document or file. What's more, Macs and PCs can easily run on the same home or business network.
As far as graphic design is concerned, there is no significant difference in the design software available for both the Mac and PC. The standard, Adobe Creative Suite, is developed for both platforms. The Mac is often considered the designer’s computer. One the other side of the coin, there is more software available for the PC, especially if you are focused on a particular industry, gaming or 3-D renderings (such as for architecture).
For end users, the major differences between the two come down to cosmetics, semantics and overall service. A long-time Windows user might look at a Mac and ask, "Where's the Start menu? Why don't applications close when I click the X? What the heck is a Finder?"
Part of the confusion comes from the different ways that the two systems approach the menu system. On a Mac, the main application menu is always on the top of the screen, separate from the active application windows themselves. So even when you close your browser or application windows on a Mac, the application you were using is still running till you have selected "Quit" to close the application completely.
The great thing is you don't even have to choose between Macs and PCs anymore: Apple offers an application called Boot Camp that lets you run Windows on your Mac. You can enjoy the day-to-day convenience of your shiny Mac with the ability to use those one of a kind PC programs.
On a side note: PC's are for chumps!
Sources: howstuffworks & graphicdesign.about.com
One of Apple’s Worst Products, Ever | via Wired.com
iTunes
It started so well back in 2001. Apple’s jukebox software was built on the third-party SoundJam which it bought the year before, and was a slick, quick and easy-to-use music player for a long time.
Then Apple decided that iTunes should be the conduit for the iPhone, and kept piling on bloated features. What had started as a pared-down, single-minded and simple application started to sync with Outlook, gained the useless cover flow view and, on the Mac at least, appeared to have a monopoly on the spinning beach-ball of death.
Worse, the iTunes Store, a fantastically user-friendly music store, gained weight in the form of the awful, hard to navigate App Store.
Of course, these days we have a new, simple and fast music app. It’s called Spotify. Apple, though, has shafted itself. The problem with selling a revolutionary device which is an iPod, a cellphone and an internet device, all in one, is that the software to support it needs to be similarly multitasking.
Anything we missed? While these failures are big, we have restricted them to the modern-day Apple, and ignored the Jobs-less wilderness years of beige boxes and overpriced printers.
- OK. My thoughts are as follows. iTunes has become a cumbersome product that is becoming more and more confusing. This is coming from a guy that takes pride in knowing his technology and keeping up with all the latest trends. Would it hurt my mac dock to have additional application lingering? No! A dedicated team for a piece of dedicated software would also be nice. I find iTunes sometimes clunky and a little over bearing.
At the end of the day, I do not have too much to complain about. I love Apple!
Feel free to add more in the comments.
via iSuck: Apple’s Five Worst Products, Ever | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
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